{"id":35,"date":"2002-08-20T20:12:40","date_gmt":"2002-08-21T04:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jokeofalltrades.com\/root\/?p=35"},"modified":"2025-10-19T10:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:12:19","slug":"haiku-for-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/2002\/08\/20\/haiku-for-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"haiku for pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nfor eternal bliss<br \/>\nlong life, sunshine, happiness<br \/>\ndrink coffee daily\n<\/p>\n<p>\nblack pants, round bottom<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/callipygian\">callipygous<\/a> roman muse*<br \/>\ntrain girl, i love you\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\nthe <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/red-wheelbarrow\">red wheelbarrow<\/a><br \/>\nupon which so much depends<br \/>\nsits idle, broken\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;sky is the limit<br \/>\nall you put your mind to&#8212;yours&#8221;<br \/>\nkill me quickly please\n<\/p>\n<p>\nno longer student<br \/>\ni fear the life before me:<br \/>\nabject poverty\n<\/p>\n<p>\nthe river flows fast<br \/>\ninexorable current<br \/>\nlife passes me by\n<\/p>\n<p>\nno word is spoken<br \/>\ntrain girl, me, two feet between<br \/>\ndeafening quiet\n<\/p>\n<p>\nsublime aroma<br \/>\nmakes me feel alert, alive<br \/>\nfresh pot of coffee\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"np\">\nNP: Devo, <i>Post-Post&#8211;Modern Man<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n*a roman goddess<br \/>\nwith greek characteristics?<br \/>\nnames are similar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for eternal bliss long life, sunshine, happiness drink coffee daily black pants, round bottom callipygous roman muse* train girl, i love you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}